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New on the Web
American
Revolution Lesson Plans
Lesson Plans created by Marist Alumni, Heather Oehme, are now
available on our website. Topics include the Boston Tea Party and Taxation
without Representation. We
have digitized the first eight lesson plans and will be adding
more weekly.
Patriots
Weekend video 2002
Listen to the interesting stories behind this battle, along with
a re-enactment of elements of the battle conducted by the Brigade
of the American Revolution from the 4th to 6th of October 2002,
Patriots Weekend. The highlight of the weekend was the dedication
of the Fort Montgomery State Historic Site by Governor George
Pataki.
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This Month's Featured Website |
The Espous Lighthouse is the only remaining Hudson River Lighthouse
built with a wood frame and clapboard exterior. Accessible only
by water, it was a family station and always had a keeper in residence.
When the Coast Guard acquired the Lighthouse Service in 1939, keepers
were replaced by Coast Guard personnel. It was closed in 1965 and
an automated navigational aid is now on a pole outside the building. |
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This Months’s Featured Historic Site
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Named
for a fortress treasure-house in ancient Persia, Olana was the home
of Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), one of America's most important
artists, a student of Thomas Cole, and a major figure in the Hudson
River School of landscape painting. Built high on a hill near Hudson,
New York between 1870 and 1891, then as now, Olana offers magnificent
sweeping vistas of the Catskill Mountains, the Hudson River and
the Taconic Hills. Today, Olana is a New York State Historic Site,
a National Historic Landmark, and one of the most popular tourist
destinations in the Hudson Valley and upstate New York. Olana is
only open on the weekends in March. In April, it opens during the
week. Olana is currently holding a lecture series, held every Saturday
in March, on the history of industry, housing, and transportation
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This Month’s Featured Historic Town
of the Hudson River Valley
Town
of Esopus
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Town of Esopus covers approximately 40 square miles, much of which
is still naturally decorated with lakes, waterways, and lush woodlands.
In addition to the Hudson and Walkill Rivers, the Rondout, Black,
and Swartekill Creeks wind through the Town of Esopus. Several hamlets
make up the Town of Esopus including Connelly, Esopus, New Salem,
our Town center Port Ewen, Rifton, St. Remy, Sleightsburgh, Ulster
Park, Union Center, and West Park. Along with the elegant beauty
of our landscape, the Town of Esopus has so much to offer our residents
and visitors; historic homes and sites, vineyards, apple orchards,
fishing, parks and preserves, museums and educational fare, and
many fine shops, restaurants, and farm stands |
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If
you would like to support the work of the Hudson River Valley Institute,
call 845-575-3052 to learn more about the Patriots’ Society, or
visit
www.hudsonrivervalley.org/patriotsSociety.php.
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